Ōsaka archaeology /
"Ōsaka, now a city of 19 million inhabitants, was the economic powerhouse of Japan for two thousand years and remains an important international center. In an unusual archaeological treatment of regional long-term history, Richard Pearson proposes that a kind of entrepreneurial mentality motiva...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.,
[2016]
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| Series: | Archaeopress archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
- Ōsaka archaeology
- The environment of the Ōsaka area and its changes
- Early hunter gatherers: the Palaeolithic and Jōmon periods (ca. 20,000 BC to 950 BC)
- The expansion of agrarian society, the Yayoi Period (950 BC to 240 AD)
- Consolidation of political power and trade; the Kofun period (240 to 600 AD)
- The Naniwa Port as a regional center; the Kodai (600 to 1185 AD) period
- Ōsaka as a commerical center; the Chūsei period (ca 1185 to 1603 AD)
- The beginnings of modern Ōsaka; the Kinsei period (ca 1603 to 1868 AD)
- Ōsaka's special features.